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Brasilia International Airport

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Chapada dos Veadeiros (near Brasilia)

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What do you think? :cheers1:

WOW!! Striking! I've always loved Niemeyer's work!!

so 70's. very ugly.

I hate the way Brasilia is planned. Too much open space, too many huge freeways and cold architecture. Not good >(

But some of the buildings Niemeyer draw are pretty nice :)

Great pics!!!!:okay::cheers:

definately intresting...doesn't look very livable

^ ^

Yep, there seems to be very few people (or cars for that matter). It doesnt look at all vibrant.

Why doesn't it look very livable?

so 70's. very ugly.

actually, it was built from 1950 to 1960. It may look old, but it was very modern at the time. The only way anyone would have been able to correct this would have been to wait till the late 90's to build it. This way, the buildings would look much newer.

Ughhh.......very ugly. That 60's space age style looks so lifeless. :(

http://img6.exs.cx/img6/6789/63824466guzdOz_ph.jpg

^ Looks like an american suburb and then downtown

Anyway, i bet if this city was in somewhere in 'other' countries we would see nicer comments.

http://img6.exs.cx/img6/6789/63824466guzdOz_ph.jpg

^ Looks like an american suburb and then downtown

Anyway, i bet if this city was in somewhere in 'other' countries we would see nicer comments.

Um... a collection of buildings don't make a downtown... especially considering all the open space and the complete lack of pedestrians or any other signs of life.

I live in Mississauga which has 200 high-rises, making it 19th in North America in terms of number of high-rises. But all those high-rises don't make it a real city.

Suburbs are boring no matter which country they are in. Brasilia isn't getting bad comments because of which country it is in. It is getting bad comments because it looks ALOT like a suburb.

i like it...it's very mystical :)

People love to criticize Brasilia for free. The city is very nice and people who live there find the place incredibly good to live.

Well, the city is beautiful, green and nice, despite all the "cut and paste" critics that many people (who never went there or studied it) vomit every now and then...

Incredible !!

BRASILIA......!!!! Wonder of Brasil...!!!!

:) :cheers: :applause:

The city is a fascinating monument to modernism, but it is almost unimously considered a functional failure by architects and critics. In fact, the failure of Brasilia to provide the utopia it promised is seen by many as symbolic of the death of Modernism.

I saw a show on Brasilia a while back and it has a very high rate of pedestrian deaths compared to other cities cause the whole thing was designed mainly for cars and not for people.It is kind of like a suburb if you think about it. Some of those buildings are quite beautiful but I don't like the concrete landscaping everywhere.

I saw a show on Brasilia a while back and it has a very high rate of pedestrian deaths compared to other cities cause the whole thing was designed mainly for cars and not for people.It is kind of like a suburb if you think about it. Some of those buildings are quite beautiful but I don't like the concrete landscaping everywhere.

That may have been true during the past, but nowadays it isn´t. I´ve never been to any city in Brasil where pedestrians are respected as in Brasilia. You reach the corner, all the cars stop for you to cross the street. It all started exactly because of this bad-fame that Brasilia had, so the government decided to change it, and put some guards in every corner to fee the cars that didn´t stopped for pedestrians. In few months the city changed completely.

As a town planner I would love to see Brasillia, it looks fascinating. It would be interesting to see what works and what doesn't.

Nice city, but Sao Paulo and Rio are better

I absolutely love Brasilia...Even though it might not seem very city like. I love Niemeyer's work.

Great pics BTW.

modern, very modern !!!!

:runaway: I think it looks nice, especially the apartments, they are spread out evenly and have some space, for kids to play in or things like that, the city has many parks, and the city is very clean, If I had the oppurtunity and If I knew more Portuegese, I would love to move here, except, I still live with my parents(i am 14)

SOOOOOOOOO beautiful!!! I still couldn't see it.... was living one year in Brazil and never made it to the capital. My wife neither and she's from Sao Paulo. And now... my ex-girlfriend that lives at the moment in Sri Lanka can visit Brazilia and she never was in SA... that's just unfair :(

:lol:

More PICS PLEASE!!!

Very little people in Brasilia know this city.

nice architecture, that bridge is fantastic :yes:

excessive modern and orribile. a beautiful place in order not to live to us

I hate the way Brasilia is planned. Too much open space, too many huge freeways and cold architecture. Not good >(

But some of the buildings Niemeyer draw are pretty nice :)

I agree. In addition it misses soul...

Are there any clubs or bars in the city? Is there a special district for it? It just looks cold and lifeless.

Are there any clubs or bars in the city? Is there a special district for it? It just looks cold and lifeless.

there are lots of activity in the corruption district, where the congress is located :)

Apparentley the Suburbs of this "city" are quite bad.

wow...

I like thys new city, very well planed (the city see from above looks an airplane) and ful of parks and green spaces, the lake and is close to a natural wonder call Chapada dos Viadeiros.

nice but i prefer janero:cheers:

http://img6.exs.cx/img6/488/33738350zKmWgl_ph.jpg

These commieblocks look exactly like eastern European ones.

Generally speaking, I like how the city feels huge and open. But architecture is too simple, the "blocks" without details that were considered "oh amazing!" 30 years ago, are the opposite of what I enjoy :)

I don't like Brasilia Skyscrapers, but i think is a nice city!! I prefer the city that i live Campo Grande :D

Nice pics! Let me add this one, which I found a gorgeous aerial photo of the city:
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1559/bras4nh.jpg :)

^ wow, on this areal it looks as if most of the city is commieblocks.

These 'commieblocks' wre constructed for the politics and other public clerks. Today many of them left these blocks called 'superquadra' and live in the houses on the other side of the sea. I dunno the names of the places, you should ask someone who is from Brasília or knows it better. I went there two times for a week-end, this is not enough to get to know it. But actually that commieblock style had some kind of communist background where everyone lives like everyone else. And they had to be constructed quiackly to make the city work - and they managed to! Within years.

more commie blocks:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/shoshoz/brasilia.jpg

Amazing photo..

One of the most espectacular planned capitals of the world !!!

there are lots of activity in the corruption district, where the congress is located :)

I agree with you. Maybe the corruption be the main activity in Brasília. Unhappyly!!! :bash:

I LOVE 70S AND RETO ARCHITECTURE,REMINDS ME OF HIGH MODERNISM OF FRITZ LANG,CRONENBERG AND PHILIP KAUFMAN MOVIES IN CERTAIN WAY.

Wow its real clean lookin kind of like a 50's dream america with houses with siding and white picket fences except commie blocks and wide open spaces. :rofl: